On 6 December 2004, the IISS held an Eurasia Strategy Seminar on "The 10th Anniversary Since the Beginning of the First War in Chechnya: Outcomes, Regional Implications and Future Prospects".
1:30-2:00 Coffee and registration of participants
2:00-3:00 Session One: 10 years of War in Chechnya: Key Outcomes
Aslambek Aslakhanov, Adviser to President Putin on the North Caucasus
Tom De Waal, Caucasus Programme Director, Institute of War and Peace
Reporting
3:00-4:00 Session Two: 10 years of War in Chechnya: Key Regional and International
Implications
Alexander Torshin, Deputy Chairman of the Federation Council (upper
chamber RF Parliament), Chairman, RF Parliamentary Inquiry Committee on
Beslan, 2004
Lord Judd, (TBC) Former Rapporteur on Chechnya for the Council of
Europe
Greg Austin, Director of Research, Foreign Policy Center
4:00-4:30 Coffee Break
4:30-5:30 Session Three: Future Prospects for Chechnya and Role of the International
Community
John Russell, Senior Lecturer in Peace Studies, University of Bradford
Oksana Antonenko, Senior Fellow, International Institute for Strategic
Studies
5:30-6:00 Closing Discussion
